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[fabs_uk]

Library of Babel - new flash & pictures!

[[PCGF]Jay]

 

[fabs_uk]

transcript of thecube.html

[fabs_uk]

also, card #029, on the top of the stack of cards that appear about 2/3 of the way through, had been edited.

The anagrams are now arranged like this:

[myf]

Most of the text is on the left hand side of the screen, apart from The Most Noble, which is on the right. It's then followed by some butterflies (I counted 8 ), and then three double helix things. Two then disappear, and the remaining one becomes a single helix. This breaks up into portions, and then some molecular diagrams appear. After that we get FRB... and then UUU followed by the stack of cards.
Sorry if this is a lousy description, but I thought it might be better than nothing. Hopefully someone will put up screen shots of anything significant.

And good spot about the change on #029!

[fabs_uk]

Good shout Myf. The molecular diagrams are definitely a DNA base, although i don't know which for sure until i have a closer look. I'll put up screenshots and stuff tomorrow morning if no-one else has, but now i need to sleep.

also, ROT1 does this:
FRB -> GSC
UUU -> VVV

which afaik makes valid DNA sequences. Anyone want to comment?

[DarkHuman]

it also changes our FRB... string to
UUU.... I am more confused than the 1st day I started playing. no joke. i'm gonna go get so drunk now. man. any way we can figure the location out from the type of trees shown, or the type of dirt. I know FL dirt looks like that until you dig another 1", then it's all clay. I dunna any takers?

[myf]

Apart from changing the layout, most of the anagrams on #029 have been rearranged - the only one that is the same as on the card is SOLO, as far as I can see.

EDIT - The trees look like the big tall pine trees we have on lots of Forestry Commission land round here in Berkshire/Surrey/Hampshire. Not sure what sort they are though. I'll see if I can find out somehow. EDIT 2 - Not much luck looking on the web to see what they grow in local woods. I have a feeling they might be Scots pines, but they seem to grow some others as well (Corsican, and maybe lodgepole pines). I'll see if I can contact the forest ranger people in the morning, and they might be able to tell me.

[sixsidedsquare]

(This is from Bookmore, he couldn't seem to post for some reason)

Still on #029 : As someone pointed on the channels, the first letter for each town now spells the word STRATA. As can be found in the Merriam Webster dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/strata) :
1 : a bed or layer artificially made
2 a : a sheetlike mass of sedimentary rock or earth of one kind lying between beds of other kinds
b : a region of the sea or atmosphere that is analogous to a stratum of the earth
c : a layer of tissue <deep>
d : a layer in which archaeological material (as artifacts, skeletons, and dwelling remains) is found on excavation
The trees pictured on the LoB page are indeed most likely to be pine trees. Reference here. Interestingly enough, some Monarch (the 'Most Noble' ?) Butterflies spend winter in pine trees during their migration (reference here)

[jenniebez]

Butterflies

[jenniebez]

the flash animation- helix part

[DarkHuman]

hope this is ok, i brightned the images of the cube. the middle on goes way higher than you can see, but the 3rd one shows spiderwebs and an old tree leaf.

[jenniebez]

probably useless rna codon->amino acid mapping

[jenniebez]

3rd image

[DarkHuman]

jenniebez the string you posted matches my mod 4 math, with each of those letters matching 0,1,2, or 3. looks like the right way to go. now what were the 4 things shows during the DNA RNA strings breaking up and going back together. if we can figure out what to do with that, it might change UUU GAG AUG GCC AGA CUA GAA AUG UCA AGC GGG CAA CAG GAC to something else.

nevermind, those just point out the 4 parts of rna; u, g, a, c.